The Duke University Program in Genetics and Genomics (UPGG) is an umbrella graduate training program that spans several basic science and clinical departments and bridges the Medical Center and the College of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1967 and supported by a continuous NIH training grant for 25 years and running, the UPGG currently consists of over 100 faculty and adjunct faculty and more than 75 students.

For several decades, UPGG has served as an important forum for genetic training and education in model systems (bacteria, yeast, fungi, drosophila, zebrafish, mouse), population genetics, and human genetics. In recent years, the program has developed a close relationship with Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy (IGSP) to provide a broad and flexible training environment that spans both genetics and the genome sciences. Read more... »

UPGG News

May 9, 2013
Congratulations to those UPGG students who will be graduating this coming weekend!

April 3, 2013
Congratulations to UPGG student Zakiya Whatley (Kreuzer lab) for being honored with a 2013 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Teaching. Read More »

April 1, 2013
Congratulations to UPGG students Lara Linden (D. Sherwood Lab), Emily Miller (Silver Lab), and Joanna Rifkin (Rausher Lab) on being awarded 2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF-GRFP). Read More »

March 20, 2013
Dr. Ando van der Velden of Stony Brook University will be speaking at the Tuesday Seminar Series on April 9, 2013. (There was previously no seminar scheduled for that day.)

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